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steve7871
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| Top review droog, very well written. |
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MrSpice
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| Highly recommend ""Magrib" and "Elki Palki" restaurants on Nevsky Prospect (both located around Nevsky 78-84) |
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Schneeflocke
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Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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Location: Petrovsky Stadium, Piter
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Is there a good Chinese restaurant in town (I saw that there are many, but they haven't really convinced me to go in..)? Has anyone been to "Chopsticks" in the Grand Hotel Europe?
As far as Italian Food, I always like to go to "Mama Roma" (Italyanskaya Uliza?), just off from Nevsky, Anichkov bridge. Great pizza, salad and under the week you get a discount.  |
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pennychuck
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Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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Location: UK soon to be St P
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re chinese restaurants...
If you want to eat really cheaply the chefs at the Harbin Restaurant (on corner of Gorokhavaya ul and the Moyka) also do the catering for the Herzen Institute student canteen next door. Fantastic food, amazing prices - 10 roubles for a plate sized steamed pork dumpling. The staff don't speak much Russian so you have to read the menus and ask for a no 3/no 10 whatever... Often useful to take a pen and paper and write it down for them - especially as it gets very busy. The Institute is the next building along the Moyka (towards Nevskiy) - go through the entrance gates and then bear right and follow the path to the restaurant door. |
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Ron-Conoplia
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Joined: 23 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: Re: Best Places in St. Petersburg: Hotels, Restaurans, Clubs |
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| WayToRussia wrote: | | If you found a good hotel, restaurant, club, cafe or just a place to go out for a walk in St. Petersburg, or heard about some place but forgot the name, please, post it here and share it with other travelers too. |
I have heard from Australian couples that Hotel Kugel in Vienna is very clean, reasonably priced at TOTAL 83 euros per standard double room (ie for two (2) people) including breakfast. I have emailed www.hotelkugel.at and received very polite rapid replies. We are going to stay there when next in Vienna. Sorry this is not Russia, but the real purpose of my reply is to ask if anyone can recommend similar Hotel Kugel accommodation in St Petersburg and Tallinn. Thanks RonConoplia@Yahoo.com.au |
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tripchik
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Joined: 25 Mar 2005
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Location: Exile
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Station Cafeterias
It may seem odd to recommend a canteen or two, but in plastic-melting St. P. these appeared as rare oases of value for money.
Pizzeria. Moskovsky Station
The bistros around Moskovsky are rather cramped and competitive - hopeless if you have coats and luggage - but this 'self' has a spacious dining hall with pot-plants and garden furniture. As you enter the station's main hall, it's through a little recess between the shops on the left.
It's called a pizzeria but in fact there's a choice of hot meals - sausage, goulash, fish - as well as different pizzas and a half a dozen salads.
Two hot meals plus bread, salad and a couple of glasses of unidentified wine came to a little over 600 roubles.
There's a civilised toilet in the restaurant, but it appears to be at the whim of a cleaning lady when it's unlocked. While you're waiting, however, you can watch a big screen TV.
For Smoker and vegetarian-friendly
Against It won't impress a date
Sum Up Cheap, clean and convenient
Station Cafe. Baltic Station
This is a basic but modern canteen with the standard steel and melamine look. The wipe-clean surfaces are indeed wiped regularly, despite the traffic.
'Selfs' are excellent for non-Russian speakers, since you can simply point at what you want. I chose something that looked like spicy meat in plov-like rice. Amazingly, it tasted just like spicy meat in plov-like rice.
The bar is separate from the food counter, but when it opens, or whether it has wine, remained a mystery. You can however get a basic Baltika from the food counter. A beer and a hot dish came to around 200.
Civilised toilet. No key hunt.
For Umm . . .
Against Umm . .
Sum up What you see is what you get |
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Devushka
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Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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| MikeFlorida wrote: | | I liked LAIMA. Russian food located near the Griboadova Canal on Nevsky. Sorta like a cafeteria, but with table service. The Blineys were A+. |
I agree about Laima...particularly the blini. Also try the Kloobniki (strawberries) in a dish if you're there in summer, they're some of the best you'll ever have. Laima is really good if you're in a rush and can't spare much time, particularly if coming or going from Nevsky Metro.
On Angliskiy Prospekt about a block past where it's divided by Griboyedova and Rimskova-Korsakova, following it along Alarchin Most, there's a little place called Street Bar that has pretty good pizza and Italian food, and the service is decent, too. And on the opposite corner of Street Bar there's a good little produkti if you need to grab a few groceries.
"Elki Palki," mentioned in someone else's post, would be correctly spelled/pronounced "Yolki Palki," by the way.
For CHINESE food to answer that question, there's one on Rubeinshteina near the Fontanka/Nevsky/Anichkov junction...I can't remember the name but you'll see the little paper lanterns, and it's quite good. |
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redridinghead
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Joined: 06 May 2006
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: Best cafe for chicken kiev? |
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Hello! I lived in St. Petersburg for 3 months with a host family as part of a study abroad program in college in 1998. This was so long ago and although I've retold countless stories of my fabulous summer, I cannot recall many important details of the city.
I ate in a very inexpensive cafe frequently that served the very best Chicken Kiev I've ever eaten in my life. Any recommendations?
I'll be travelling to St. Petersburg in July and I am starting to get nervous--comfort food would help assuage my fears a bit! |
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Fred-Smith
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Joined: 26 Jun 2006
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Location: London
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: B&B in Piters |
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I stayed in a B&B in Jan this year in Piters. It was near Moskow Square, and a good price and great place to stay. It is run by Nils, and you can find it here on WaytoRussia. It was my 2nd time at this B&B. As for places to go, well you have so much to see in the City, and I was lucky enough to Swan lake ( never been to a Ballet before ), and I really enjoyed it. The Peter and Paul Fortress is worth a visit.
Have a good time.
Mark |
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traceymill
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Location: chicago il
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Go to the Alexander palace at Tsarskoe Selo, when I was there it was almost empty, no tourists because I guess it is not as famous and no one except history buffs like myself would look for it.
So beautiful and haunting, the favorite home of the Romanovs and it is really a shrine to them, so breathtaking............... |
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Peter80
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Joined: 12 Aug 2006
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Location: St-Petersburg
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As droog said, there are couple of good pubs at Rubinshteina street:
Mollys
Rubinshteina 36
Telegraph
Rubinshteina 3
There are lots of restaurants at Rubinshteina street too. Some other pubs:
James Cook pub & cafe
Shvedski pereulok 2
Dickens pub
Naberezhnaya Fontanki 108
Office pub
Kazanskaya 5 |
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Peter80
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Location: St-Petersburg
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Some night clubs:
Jazz
"JFC" - Shpalernaya 33;
"Jazz & Frenia" - Nevsky 91;
"Jazz Time" - Mokhovaya 41;
"Neo Jazz club" - Solianoy pereulok 14;
Mainstream
"Jakata" - Bakunina 5;
"Led Limon" - Canal Griboedova 6;
"Rossi's" - Zodchego Rossi 1/3;
"Metro" - Ligovsky prospect 174;
"Plaza" - Naberezhnaya Makarova 2;
"Aquatoria" - Viborgskaya naberezhnaya 61;
Lounge
"Buddha Bar" - Bolshaya Morskaya 46;
"USSR" - Nevsky 54;
"Telegraph" - Rubinshteina 3;
"Dacha" - Dumskaya 9;
"Onegin" - Sadovaya 11;
"40 gradusov" - Kazanskaya 26;
Electronic:
"Tunnel" - Zverinskaya st. @ Lubansky pereulok;
"Red club" - Poltavskaya 7;
R'n'B
"Cadillac" - Poltavskaya 7;
Erotic
"Golden Dolls" - Nevsky 60;
"Maximus" - Naberezhnaya Moiki 61;
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Peter80
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Location: St-Petersburg
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Mama Roma restaurant is good, but expansive. Budget place is Laima, also Teremok - they serve russian pancackes, porridges and drinks, McDonalds. Elki Palki is good russian cusine, although somewhat more expensive.
One place that i would NOT recommend, is Euroasia sushi(network).
Been there with my american friends, service really sucks and prices are high. |
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Peter80
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Location: St-Petersburg
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Live music clubs
"Fish Fabrique"
http://www.fishfabrique.spb.ru/
Ligovsky prospect 53
"Fireball"
Alpiisky pereulok 30
"Jazz & Frenia"
Nevsky 91
"Zavodnie Yaitsa"
Furshtadtskaya 48
"Port"
Pereulok Antonenko 2 |
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Peter80
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Location: St-Petersburg
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